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English, 18.07.2019 06:00 babygirl200702

Read the excerpt from “the lady, or the tiger? ” in the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric. which types of descriptive language are used in the excerpt? metaphor and hyperbole strong verbs and simile sensory details and precise adjectives precise adjectives and strong verbs

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